Before & AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Chess-Ed students will enjoy a stimulating class featuring a specialized chess lesson and time to play against other students. Students will grow their knowledge of opening theory, middle game tactics and endgame combinations.  Students will expand their vocabulary as they continue to learn definitions for various tactics and openings and how to apply them on the chess board.  Students will study world famous chess games as well.

Our quality instruction lifts students to a new level of chess expertise.  All students are encouraged to join. For beginners and novice players, join the program to learn how to play chess for fun or for a richer understanding of the game. For serious and competitive players, join the program to their knowledge base will be expanded and begin to think of competitions to represent BZAEDS. 

Chess-Ed is the premiere chess provider in the Chicagoland area, guiding students to a richer appreciation of this "sport of the mind" and many schools and students to both state and national recognition.

This class features higher belt level training techniques including self-defense, forms, and basic. Fast paced class includes traditional Shaolin Kung Fu, conditioning and stretching. The class meets at Quads gym (next door) and pick up is at Quads at 4:45.

Let your children release their inner masterchef! 

We’re whipping up some fresh and tasty content for your budding kid chef this season by focusing on 3 super fun COOL-inary themes in our after-school cooking class sessions:

FUN-da-mentals: In our first class, your kid chef will develop confidence in the kitchen by learning the FUN-da-mentals: measuring, mixing, mashing, blending, and more! These skills set the foundation for cooking and baking, and students will learn these skills while creating a delicious sweet treat with a nutritious twist! 

Kitchen Tools PhD: In subsequent classes, students will move on to earning their Kitchen Tools PhD! Recipes provide tons of engaging and tactile learning for kids to perfect their dicing, slicing, mincing, grating, folding and chopping with a wide variety of kitchen tools, from graters and immersion blenders to whisks, wooden spoons and kid-safe kitchen knives. These kitchen tools help develop and hone fine motor skills as kid chefs prepare savory recipes together with their peers.

COOL-inary Confidence: Students will also learn to “Cook Off the Cuff” for several classes and develop their COOL-inary Confidence with fun & flexible recipes that let them choose the vegetables, herbs, and spices from a bundle of colorful and tasty options. Each hands-on, real-world class will encourage your young chef to engage all of their 5 senses while expressing their own unique culinary creativity, trying new foods, and thinking about how each component will contribute to their own tasty recipe masterpiece in the end!

Our professional chef instructors guide kid chefs by providing safe, entertaining, hands-on learning throughout the class, but it’s the kid chefs who do the prepping and the cooking! Our class sessions are a BLAST for all ages! When kids get to touch the ingredients and have a hand in creating their food, they’re much more willing to try new foods. 

We provide all of the tools, ingredients and instruction needed to cook up a delicious, healthy and hearty after-school snack each week. Our online recipe collection is included as well for loads of future family cooking fun at home! www.stickyfingerscooking.com/recipes

Sticky Fingers Cooking is 100% nut free. We CAN and WILL accommodate ANY and ALL food allergies

Sticky Fingers Cooking has been providing kosher cooking classes for kids since 2011. We prepare and cook kosher foods at a kosher venues (school/home/community centers). We use all new equipment to prepare and cook the recipe with the children at a kosher venue. This becomes a 100% kosher cooking kit. We mark these cooking kits as kosher. Typically we are able to store our kosher cooking kit at the venue if we have class sessions to ensure that there is no cross contamination. Sticky Fingers Cooking only prepares vegetarian foods. All foods brought in will be certified as kosher that we bring in for our students to prepare with us. All plate ware and serving ware and utensils will either be disposable or new (reusable) items. Sticky Fingers Cooking trains our Chefs on these kosher protocols and details. 

Calling all witches and wizards! Join Professor Ryback as you prepare to begin a new school year at Hogwarts. Make your own wand, build a cauldron, customize your racing broom, mix potions, and more! Please be advised that if you attended this class in the past some projects will be repeated.

Chess-Ed students will enjoy a stimulating class featuring a specialized chess lesson and time to play against other students. Students will grow their knowledge of opening theory, middle game tactics and endgame combinations.  Students will expand their vocabulary as they continue to learn definitions for various tactics and openings and how to apply them on the chess board.  Students will study world famous chess games as well.

Our quality instruction lifts students to a new level of chess expertise.  All students are encouraged to join. For beginners and novice players, join the program to learn how to play chess for fun or for a richer understanding of the game. For serious and competitive players, join the program to their knowledge base will be expanded and begin to think of competitions to represent BZAEDS. 

Chess-Ed is the premiere chess provider in the Chicagoland area, guiding students to a richer appreciation of this "sport of the mind" and many schools and students to both state and national recognition.

The Force Awakens in this introductory engineering course for young Jedi! Explore engineering principles by designing and building projects such as LEGO® X-Wings, R2 Units, Energy Catapults, Defense Turrets, and Settlements from a galaxy far, far away. Create motorized and architectural projects with imagination and engineering to defeat the Empire! Please note that this class is from 3:45 PM - 5:15 PM.

Easy Improv is a great way to get a child into the performing arts, help strengthen their confidence, or just have fun with their friends. The basic skills of improv include teamwork, listening, and trust making it perfect for the kids looking to laugh or just looking to learn. Sign up for an experience that takes the ridiculous seriously, seriously fun that it!

This class will focus on the basics and fundamentals of hip hop, a social dance that raised to the top in the 90s and continues to evolve today. Students will be working on picking up rhythm through moves that include popping, locking, footwork, and freestyle. As they begin to understand the basics of dancing to rhythm through fundamental hip hop moves, we will move on to learning more choreography based phrases. This class will be a high energy,  fun, and all inclusive class where students will tap into their creativity, funk, and confidence.

This sketching and painting class will help your child develop their own sense of artistic style. We will be working on abstract concepts, landscapes, portraits and still life drawings and paintings. Children will learn basic techniques with a variety of materials and tools while creatine their own masterpieces. New project subjects each session!